By Jordan KingShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberLawmakers will question the need for certain safety mandates in cars, including automatic emergency braking, at a hearing to discuss how to make vehicles more affordable for Americans, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, announced the hearing scheduled for January 14 next year, saying it will “examine how radical global warming regulations and mandated technologies have driven up the cost of vehicles for American consumers.”
The Wall Street Journal said that this will include reassessing some safety technology, such as emergency braking and also alarms that remind drivers when a child is in the back seat.
“Americans have been clear that they are hyper-focused on affordability – and so is this committee. The average price of a car has more than doubled in the past decade, driven up by onerous government-mandated technologies and radical environmental regulations,” Cruz said in the statement announcing the hearing.
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